PARLIAMENT will ask Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to issue a ministerial statement in response to global broadcaster Al Jazeera’s documentary alleging rampant money laundering and gold smuggling in the country. This comes after the news network aired the first of its four-part documentary last week, naming a number of people and institutions allegedly involved in…
HARARE North MP Allan Markham has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging a High Court judgment which dismissed an application in which he sought the release of an electronic voters roll by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) ahead of upcoming national elections. Early this month, High Court judge Justice Never Katiyo threw out…
THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), Priscilla Chigumba, has warded off attempts by opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora to have the forthcoming national elections delayed in the wake of the criticism levelled against the recent delimitation report. This comes after Mwonzora recently filed an application at the Constitutional Court(ConCourt) challenging the delimitation report, arguing…
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has warned schools and examination centres against setting registration deadlines that will result in candidates failing to register for public examinations. This comes amid confusion over the actual deadline for this year’s examinations with some schools setting it for the end of this month. In a statement yesterday, the…
Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat ZANU PF has opened doors for appeals by those claiming they were cheated during last weekend’s parliamentary and council primary polls with a number of bigwigs, including Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, lodging their complaints yesterday. This comes after many Zanu PF bigwigs, including a number of ministers and serving legislators,…
LEGISLATORS have pleaded with the government to quickly address their welfare or for Parliament to go for a break until the issues of their well-being and a serious hotel accommodation crisis are resolved. Both the Senate and the National Assembly resumed sitting yesterday after a one-week recess. Speaking in the National Assembly, Citizens Coalition for…
THE Supreme Court has set aside a High Court ruling for a private company Delatfin Investments to return construction equipment it had hired from Chitungwiza Municipality. Delatfin Investments owed the local authority a front-end loader, a grader and three bulldozers after it breached an agreement that the two parties entered in 2007 for the company…
By Blessings Mashaya and Brighton Muronzereyi WHILE it is too early to know the full implications of the results of Zanu PF’s dramatic primaries on the country’s body politic, the indications are that this could consolidate the ruling party’s power after this year’s national elections, analysts say. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the analysts…
By Ketty Noyni PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the country’s judiciary system to act in a non-partisan manner when dealing with political violence cases, as the country hurtles towards general elections set to be held before the end of August. Speaking during the official opening of magistrates’ court in Epworth yesterday, Mnangagwa called on…
THE Supreme Court has ordered former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her company, Ruzirun to settle a debt owed to a couple, Sabrina and Tony Sarpo. Mujuru owes over US$226 000 to the Sarpos after she refused to use the interbank rate to pay for farming equipment that she had purchased through their company Peppy…
